Oepao language
E809247
The Oepao language is an Austronesian language spoken on Rote Island in Indonesia, belonging to the Rote subgroup of the Timoric branch.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oepao language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9577652 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oepao language Context triple: [Rote languages, hasPart, Oepao language]
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A.
Opokuma language
The Opokuma language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Opokuma subgroup of the Ijaw people in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
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B.
Opata language
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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C.
Uneapa language
The Uneapa language is an Oceanic language spoken on Uneapa (Bali) Island in Papua New Guinea’s West New Britain Province, belonging to the Western Bismarck subgroup.
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D.
Naoero language
The Naoero language is an Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous population of the Pacific island nation of Nauru.
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E.
Vaiphei language
The Vaiphei language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Vaiphei people in northeastern India, especially in the state of Manipur.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oepao language Target entity description: The Oepao language is an Austronesian language spoken on Rote Island in Indonesia, belonging to the Rote subgroup of the Timoric branch.
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A.
Opokuma language
The Opokuma language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Opokuma subgroup of the Ijaw people in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
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B.
Opata language
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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C.
Uneapa language
The Uneapa language is an Oceanic language spoken on Uneapa (Bali) Island in Papua New Guinea’s West New Britain Province, belonging to the Western Bismarck subgroup.
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D.
Naoero language
The Naoero language is an Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous population of the Pacific island nation of Nauru.
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E.
Vaiphei language
The Vaiphei language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Vaiphei people in northeastern India, especially in the state of Manipur.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
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Rote language ⓘ Timoric language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Timor–Babar group (in some classifications) ⓘ |
| branch | Timoric ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian ⓘ |
| glottologCode | oepa1237 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Oepao ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Landu
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Nusa Manupui ⓘ Oepao proper ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Dela-Oenale language
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Lole language ⓘ Termanu language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported for Rote languages)
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prenasalized stops (reported for Rote languages) ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | oea ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | Oepao people ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Rote Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| morphologyType | moderately agglutinative ⓘ |
| region | East Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Rote Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Rote subgroup of Timoric branch ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Malayo-Polynesian
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linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
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| subgroup | Rote ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SVO basic word order
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prepositional language ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication in Oepao-speaking communities ⓘ |
| usedIn | local oral tradition on Rote Island ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
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How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Oepao language Description of subject: The Oepao language is an Austronesian language spoken on Rote Island in Indonesia, belonging to the Rote subgroup of the Timoric branch.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.